It is self-evident that NATO needs a defence plan (that's really its job!).The Russian army has most liekly a plan for teh defence of St.Petersburg against Finland, no matter how unnecessarythat may be.

The assertions that the same did not exist (until a few months ago when plannings did supposedly begin - the leak wasn't breaking news in this regard) was quite unacceptable.

I signed my early posts with my name as e-mail link, but edited at least some of those links out in an attempt to reduce spam.lastdingo@gmx.de

The foreign influence inside the EU will be a small sub-topic in a later, huge blog post on German security policy.